Everything is ready....

 On Friday, I received a phone call from our Metricon Site Manager. He has phoned to advise that they have scheduled a start date of Tuesday the 28th of September. A little earlier than I had expected - This is good. This only provides 13 and a half weeks however, until the end of the year, so I am not sure that they can be expected to finish the property before this time.

The building period is set at 180 days from the start date and it must reach practical completion within 180 days of this time. Of note, this time frame also includes allowances for:
* Inclement weather - 10 days
* Weekends, public holidays, rostered days off and other days not generally available for the carrying out of the works - 55 days.

(Of note: the industry shutdown occurs on or about the 22nd of December each year and occurs for 3 weeks - 21 days)

So from what I can tell, this provides the builder with 201 days to complete the home (180 + 21) from the official site start date, Wednesday the 29th of September 2010. This means the home should be completed by Monday the 18th of April 2011 (201 days is actually Sunday the 17th of April). Best case, if they did it in the 14 weeks and didn't take any time off, it would be completed by Wednesday January 5th 2011).

From the work the builders have done at my workplace, I have learnt it is better to take a little longer if they do the job better, than to rush it and have errors all over the place.

So what do we want? Like most, we want it completed in the least amount of time, but not to sacrifice items that could have been done better if a little more time was taken.

Some initial photos...

Our block of land (700m2)

The Neighbours

The property behind us.

The neighbours again

The fence has been added behind our property.

A photo from a distance.

An aerial photograph dated the 11th of September